From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 4 22:32:50 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id WAA02711 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 22:32:50 -0700 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA02654 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 22:32:42 -0700 Received: from disperse.demon.co.uk (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id LAA14081 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 11:37:43 -0700 Received: from post.demon.co.uk by disperse.demon.co.uk id ac10045; 4 Sep 95 19:33 +0100 Received: from panorama.demon.co.uk by post.demon.co.uk id aa05213; 4 Sep 95 19:30 +0100 Received: from bastet.panorama.COM by panorama.demon.co.uk (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29535; Mon, 4 Sep 95 18:18:08 BST Received: by bastet.panorama.COM (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA23301; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 18:18:48 +0000 Date: Mon, 4 Sep 1995 18:18:48 +0000 From: Ian Edwards Message-Id: <9509041718.AA23301@bastet.panorama.COM> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Linux emulation under FreeBSD X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1440 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Sender: jkh@time.cdrom.com > From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" > Mime-Version: 1.0 > To: ian@panorama.COM > Subject: Re: Can I run Linux executables on FreeBSD 2.0.5 ? > > ian@panorama.com ( Ian Edwards ) wrote: > >I have a database program which was built with Linux (kernel 1.2.1) > >and I want to run it on PC hardware (arriving soon). Having read about > >FreeBSD and Linux I would prefer to run it on FreeBSD which I thought > >could run Linux and SCO binaries. However I have just got the FreeBSD CD > >and the documentation on 'linux-emu' says it is not a generic emulator, > >so will the database run on FreeBSD 2.0.5 ? > .... We also have more advanced emulation currently in BETA testing. ... > > -- > Jordan Thanks for the mail. I have loaded the 'linux-emu' files from /xperimnt on the 2.0.5 CDROM and rebuilt the kernel. I cannot do any testing of the database because I need a license, however the program that generates the information for the license runs but produces the following message :- jack# ./texlicinfo ./texlicinfo: using incompatible library '/lib/libc.so.4' Desire minor version >= 6 and found 5 Should I continue with 'linux-emu' or switch to the "more advanced emulation" mentioned in the email reply ? (Where would I get the new emulator from ?) On an unrelated point, is there a program which will create a floppy disc that is bootable ? Thanks for the help, Ian.